Episode 6: Beyond Motherhood: Jessica Alba on Overcoming Guilt and Rediscovering Yourself

In this episode, she welcomes actress and The Honest Company founder Jessica Alba to have a conversation about motherhood, the compromises we make for our children, and how to prioritize yourself while still remaining present as a parent.

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Did you feel like you lost a part of yourself when you became a parent? Valeria knows exactly how you feel. In this episode, she welcomes actress and The Honest Company founder Jessica Alba to have a conversation about motherhood, the compromises we make for our children, and how to prioritize yourself while still remaining present as a parent. Valeria shares her stories of feeling guilty when she couldn’t be as accessible to her son as he wanted and learning not to over identify with the role of mother. She listens to Jessica’s take on how to tune into yourself and why she finally felt a sense of home after having kids.

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Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of The Honest Company (NASDAQ: HNST), is a globally recognized business leader, entrepreneur, advocate, actor and New York Times bestselling author. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of The Honest Company, Yahoo! and Baby2Baby. The Honest Company is a mission-driven, digitally-native brand focused on leading the clean lifestyle movement, creating a community for conscious consumers and seeking to disrupt multiple consumer product categories. Honest is dedicated to creating thoughtfully formulated, safe and effective personal care, beauty, baby and household products, which are available via honest.com, and at more than 43,000 retail locations across the United States, Canada and Europe. Based in Los Angeles, CA, The Honest Company is driven by its values of transparency, trust, sustainability, and a deep sense of purpose around what matters most to its consumers: their health, their families and their homes. Since inception, the Company has donated approximately 26 million essential products and employees have volunteered over 18,500 hours in the community. In 2013, Jessica authored the New York Times bestselling book, The Honest Life, a how-to handbook based on her mission to create a safe and healthy life. Jessica appeared on the cover of Forbes’ “Self-Made Women” issue and was among the top twenty of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, one of CNBC’s Next List of Rebels, Leaders and Innovators, and one of Fortune’s 10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs. She has been named to Vanity Fair’s Next Establishment and Entrepreneur of the Year at the UK Glamour Women of the Year Awards. Jessica has received the March of Dimes Grace Kelly Award, the Entertainment Media Association’s Green Parent Award and the Mount Sinai Children’s Environmental Health Center Champion for Children Award.

Credits

Not Alone is produced in partnership with FRQNCY Media.
Producer: Lizzie Stewart 
Associate Producer: Emily Krumberger
Supervising Producer: Enna Garkusha 
Executive Producer: Michelle Khouri
Script written by: Ellie Katz
Script editors: Isabel Moncloa Daly and Jessica Olivier
Mixer and sound designer: Claire Bidigare-Curtis
Session engineering: DonTaé Hodge.

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